A Teaneck shoe maker has joined with a California technology company to create a shoe that uses GPS technology that records where a wearer walks – and can send alerts to caregivers if someone suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia wanders away and gets lost.
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Aetrex President Evan Schwartz with the GPS shoe.
A family in Virginia has been using the shoes for the past month, as part of a trial set up by an elder-care expert, to keep track of an 83-year-old husband and father who scared his wife recently when he wandered away while she was grocery shopping. The man’s son now gets alerts on his cellphone showing his father’s location. “So if I lose him, I can call my son and he tells me where he is,” the man’s wife said. Full story…
